This Beautiful City (2007)

Directed by

Ed Gass-Donnelly

Genre

drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 25m

Rating

3.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five strangers in downtown Toronto have their lives connected after a woman falls from a balcony. A recovering addict tries to start fresh with his girlfriend, while a wealthy couple and a police detective deal with the aftermath.

slow-burnmelancholictensegrittyemotionalurbanintertwinedpoignant

What happens

This Beautiful City is a 2007 Canadian drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Ed Gass-Donnelly. It premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and had a general theatrical release in 2008. The film depicts the lives of five disparate characters in Downtown Toronto. Johnny (Aaron Poole) is a recovering crack cocaine addict trying to convince his prostitute girlfriend Pretty (Kristin Booth) to move with him to a new city so they can make a clean break from their old lives, while Harry (Noam Jenkins) and Carol (Caroline Cave) are a wealthy couple. Events are set in motion when Carol falls from the balcony of her condo in an apparent suicide attempt, landing just metres away from Johnny and Pretty in the alleyway below. She survives, but Peter (Stuart Hughes), a police detective, finds her and the group's lives begin to intertwine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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